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Bohm look at the church!" and she turned after Mrs. Weguelin. "It is such a gem!" But I saw the little lady try to speak and fail, and then I noticed that she was leaning against a window-sill. Beverly Rodgers also noticed this, and he hastened to her. "Thank you," she returned to his hasty question, "I am quite well. If you are not tired of it, shall we go on?"
Weguelin, or anybody. The strain of sitting and waiting for the end made my hands cold and my head hot, but nevertheless the light which had come enabled me to bend instantly to Mrs. Braintree and murmur a great and abused quotation to her: "Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner." But my petition could not move her. She was too old; she had seen the flames of war; and so she said to her husband:
"Or than any older person who has bravely and worthily gone through with the experience," Mrs. Weguelin added. "Ladies, I've no mind to argue. But we're ahead of Europe; we don't need their clumsy old plan." Mrs. Gregory gave a gallant, incredulous snort. "I shall be interested to learn of anything that is done better here than in Europe." "Oh, many things, surely!
There had come to be among us all, I think Beverly, Kitty, Gazza, and myself a joint impulse to shield her, to cluster about her, to follow her steps from each little lecture that she finished to the new point where the next lecture began; and we did it, performed our pilgrimage to the end; but there was less and less nature in our performance. Weguelin saw us likewise.
And the ladies consulted each other's expressions. But that didn't bother me any more. "And you can admire her?" Mrs. Weguelin persisted. "May I tell you exactly, precisely?" "Oh, do!" they both exclaimed. "Well, I think many wise men would find her immensely desirable as somebody else's wife!" At this remark Mrs. Weguelin dropped her eyes, but I knew they were dancing beneath their lids.
But he took it less lightly before it was over. We stood chatting apart, he and I, while Bohm and Charley and Kitty and Gazza walked across the street to the window of a shop, where old furniture was for sale at a high price; and it grew clearer to me what Beverly had innocently brought upon Mrs. Weguelin, and how he had brought it.
Weguelin of the steel wasp, I had put my abruptness in "quotations," so to speak, by the tone I gave it, just as people who are particular in speech can often interpolate a word of current slang elegantly by means of the shade of emphasis which they lay upon it. So Mrs. Weguelin smiled and her dark eyes danced a little. "You remember I said that, then?" "I remember everything that you said."
That I ordered china, instead of silver, was due to my surmise that in Kings Port or at any rate by Mrs. Weguelin and Miss Josephine St. Michael silver from any one not of the family would be considered vulgar; it was only a surmise, and, of course, it was precisely the sort of thing that I could not verify by asking any of them.
Her father calls himself a general, and it is repeated that he ran away at the battle of Chattanooga. I hope you will come to see me another day, when you can spare time from the battle of Cowpens. I am Mrs. Weguelin St. Michael, the other lady is Mrs. Gregory St. Michael. I wonder if you will keep us all straight?"
Weguelin. It was a more familiar way of beginning with the little, dignified lady than would have been at all possible, or suitable, if we had not had that little joke about the piano snobile between us. As it was, she was not wholly displeased.
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